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Share Your Financial Results and Improve Performance

Strategy Driven

Finance Without Fear : A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger Finance Without Fear should be read by anyone starting or managing a business. The easy-to-read style helps remove the fear of finance for the entrepreneur, the small business owner, and the manager.

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Black Friday 2011: Advantage Retailers

Harvard Business Review

The resulting "have and have not" economy is shaping each retailer's pricing strategy. Walmart, for instance, is concerned about its customers' finances, while high-end retailer Saks Fifth Avenue is selling luxury items at full-price and recently reported a 5.8% In fact, price matching is a strategy to raise prices.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." It was a humbling time to serve in uniform. link] 9/11: Heroes and Leaders « The Alpha Elephant [.]

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Why Chinese Firms' Cross-Border Deals Fall Apart

Harvard Business Review

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. To do so, they must: Make sure that acquisitions are aligned with strategy.

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Pricing Lessons From the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

Traditional pricing strategy is by definition antagonistic, but it needs to become a more socially conscious, collaborative exercise. To manage the uncertainty, the committee increased the number of price tiers across events, as mentioned, but did not assign a fixed number of seats to each tier.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

Not all these have proven to be as stable as investors might have liked, with riots, coups, military takeovers, and surprise election results introducing uncertainty. Profits that are received at some future point are discounted by the real cost of finance and any appropriate risk premium. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. Her attitude of retaining only good followers resulted in the loss of numerous well-experienced and efficient people.